September 22, 1950 (8 pages)

4 CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM GETS ROLLING HERE Nevada county’s Crusade for Freedom campaign, under _ the general chairmanship of Superior Judge James Snell, is underway this week in Nevada City, Grass Valley and Truckee. William Durbrow, Town Talk; is the general vice chairman. The Crusade for Freedom was opened:in San Francisco Monday at 11 a.m. with pealing of church and school bells, and is spreading throughout the U. S. Under the general chairmanship of Lucius D. Clay, the Crusade for Freedom is a roll call of all Americans who love freedom to help lift the Iron Curtain everywhere on the face of the globe. Judge Snell said participation is voluntary and entails. but two activities — (1) signature of the Freedom Scrolls which are being circulated throughout Nevada county this week, and (2) backing up of your signature by a voluntary contribution to Radio Free Europe, the American people’s broadcasting station in the western part of Germany that daily beams into the Iron Curtain. The station went on the air July 4 with Czech and Rumanian programs and features, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian language programs. Judge Snell announced .the Crusade for Freedom committees as follows: Grass Valley: C. R. Clinch, Roy Tremoureux, Gail Gordon, Guy Robinson, Rev. Frank Buck and Gil Cramer, Nevada City: Fred F. Cassidy, Dr. Walter’ Hawkins,!.Frank G. Finnegan and Thomas Hi Taylor. Truckee: Walter Barrett, Walter Loynd, Eugene O’Rourke and Cecil Edmunds. Gathering of financial returns for the purposes of the commitee and Radio Free Europe: John J. Fortier, Horace A. Curnow and Ray Scott. Church Buck. Publicity: Robert T. Ingram, Ken Wray, Walter Barrett and Alvin Trivelpiece. ; Judge Snell said that a strong committee of women with representation from all women’s organizations in the county, will be formed to assist in obtaining the scroll signatures in downtown locations, schools, public gatherparticipation:Rev. Twenty-Third Year. No. 39 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, September 22, 1950: POLIO PATIENTS AND ORTHOPEDIC CASES AT CLINIC HERE TODAY Polio patients who have previously been under care, as well as children who have had surgery through the Crippled Children’s Service may be examined ‘today in an orthopedic and crippled children’s clinic being held at the Methodist church, Broad St., between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Miss Barbara Newman, physical therapist at the polio cgnter, Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley, is conducting the clinic, and will be assisted by Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, school nurse. Dr. Delivan Fuiks, Sacramento orthopedic surgeon, ‘is. in charge of the clinic: Miss Newman announced there will. also be consultation service for those with orthopedic problems who have not yet been under the care of the services. FIVE LICENSES IN ONE DAY IS LOCAL RECORD County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble and his staff issued five marriage licenses last Friday, for what is a Nevada county record for one day, as far as Deeble can recollect in the twenty years he has served in the office. Licenses. were issued to: BROWN-WARD — Almon E. Brown, 19, Grass Valley, and Doris Louise Ward, 16, Nevada City. DEWARD HAUGLAND Carlton J. Deward, 26, and Beverly Jane Haugland, 22, both of Grass Valley. McLAUGHLIN-MARRIOTT — John A. McLaughlin, 21, Nevada City, and g.eona Mae Marriott, 19, Grass Valley. BUCK-WOOD — Robert Hermian Buck, 44, and Isabel Viola Woods, 38, both of Grass Valley. KEY-HOOD — Alfred Taylor Key, 44, and Alma Rosalyn Hood, ings and other points. : Every signature of the Freedom Scroll will be permanently enshrined in the base of the Freedom Bell in Berlin at dedication ceremonies, which will take place on United Nations Day, Tuesday, Oct. 24. ‘ EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP TOMORROW NIGHT You can have an extra hour of sleep, or carousing, reveling or whatever, tomorrow night. Daylight saving time ends during the darkness hours—officially at 2 am., Sunday morning. Clocks can be turned back tomorrow night is you have a mind for that extra hour of shuteye. Or there’s an extra hour of bending your elbow at your favorite bistro, or an extra hour for whatever your favorite entertainment may be. Daylight time is effective from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September, as it was voted into the constitution at the special election last November. FARM CENTER TO ELECT OFFICERS HERE TONIGHT Nomination and election of officers for 1950-51 will highlight a meeting of the Nevada City Farm Center tonight at 8 o’clock at Seaman’s Lodge, at Pioneer Park. ' Square *dancing and pot-luck refreshments will follow the business session. PERMITS NEEDED Don Knowlton, state division of forestry ranger, said permits for burning are still required, despite the recent rains: Fire permits may be obtained at the stat@ forestry office at the southern’ edge of Nevada City. BIGGER CHICKEN ‘HOUSE Chester Petegson is building a 7,000-chicken cajpacity coop at his place: on lost bill. He is building it during spare time from his’ duties at his service station at Commercial and Broad streets. 43, both of San Jose. REV. JOHN MACDONALD © PREXIES LOCAL PASTORS Rev. John A. MacDonald,, pastor of the Nevada City Baptist church, was elected president of the Twin Cities Ministerial Association at a meeting held Monday at the Grass Valley Methodist church. Other officers elected were Rev. Frank H. Buck, Emmanuel Episcopal church, Grass Valley, vice president; and Rev. Wm\ A. Reading, Grass Valley Nazarene church, secretary. The group discussed plans for united activities of the Protestant churches for the coming year. The next meeting will be held Monday, Oct. 16, at the Bethel church, Grass Valley. TRINITY JUNIOR CHOIR COMMENCES PRACTICE Practice started yesterday afternoon for junior choir for boys and girls of Trinity Episcopal church, according to Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of the church. Rev. Christensen also announced Sunday will see the resumption of the Young People’s Group comprised of eighth graders and high school age boys and girls. Religious instruction will last rom 7 to 7:30 followed by a social hour under direction of the rector and other adults. , ENJOYS COUNTY John Davis, a celebrated New Jersey philatelist (stamp hobbyist) enjoyed viewing the You Bet area of Nevada county under the guidance of Howard Wasley, one of our obliging and accommodating post office clerks, while visiting’ here last weekend. . SEVEN TO BE CALLED Seven. men from Nevada and Sierra counties will. be called for induction into the armed service, in October, according to an’ announcement by Col. Kenneth H. Leitch, state director of selective service, ‘. DEMOCRATS CONTINUEREGISTRATION CLIMB The future continues to look gloomy for as few remaining Republicans after a study of the registration books closed Friday by County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble. “ Deeble reported 11,183 electors registered on the county rolls for.the approaching Nov. 7 general election, a gain of 426 over the spring primary elertion. Of that 426 gain ,the Demorratic party accounted for 306 added names for a registratio of 6,393. ; : The Grand Old Party has 4,400 registered, a gain of 124. Other parties are: Social Labor, 2 new registrants; Communist, 1; no change; Townsend, 4, no change; Progressive, 4, one loss; Independent-Progressive, 37, seven losses; Prohibition,’ 6, one gain; Socialist, 6, two loss. Non-partisan registrants at 334 was a gain of three. GLENBROOK RESIDENT ANSWERS LAST CALL Funeral services were held at Hooper-Weaver mortuary Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Etta D. Sutton, 60, Glenbrook resident, who died Sunday morning at the Miners hospital. Rev. W. W. Turner officiated at the final rites. Interment was in Elm Ridge cem-Letery. A native of. Table Grove, IIL., she came to California in 1913. Following the death’ of her husband, Earl, she made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Walter Huson. Aiso surviving are a daughter, Florence Burrell, who. formerly lived on the Ridge road and now resides in Kingman, Ariz., and a son,.Chief Bosun Mate Curtis E. Johnson, Smartsville, at present stationed at San Diego. Other survivors -include’ her mother, Mrs. Myra Farfield, Tulsa, Okla.; four grandchildren; six sisters and a brother. TWO PATROLMEN HURT IN HIGHWAY CRASH California Highway Patrolmen Lorris Richards’ and Carle Kitts were. slightly injured. Sunday evening when their patrol car and a car driven by Paul Supanich, Daly City, collided on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, a_ short distance west of White Cloud. Supanich was cited for driving too fast under the road conditions, after his car skidded on a slick ‘spot on the highway and. swerved broadside into the police car. Supanich was homeward bound from a deer hunting trip. The front of the patrol car was badly damaged. GOLD FLAT NATIVE DIES Jack Clemo, 64, Grass Valley, and a native of Gold Flat, died Wednesday afternoon at Miners hospital. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock in theMyers-Grass Valley mortuary. Among his survivors is a sister, Mrs. Bernice Carter of Nevada City. TWENTY REPORT Twenty young men from Nevada and Sierra counties reported for physical examinations for possible military service induction, according to local selective senvice headquarters. Five men who took physical examinations in August will report for induction. next Friday. = NO DRAFT NAMES RELEASED . : No names of draftees will be released for publication until after they have been inducted into service, according to Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, secretary of the local selective service board. Mrs. Stevens said the policy is set by state selective service headquarters. . : FINED FOR CARELESS FIRE Melvin. Mayer, Oakland, was fined $10 Saturday for careless use of fire by throwing a lighted cigarette from a car on highway 40 near Big Bend. Justice of the Peace George W._ Gildersleeve imposed the, fine. MR. AND MRS. RISLEY ASK $250,000 DAMAGES IN GLENBROOK ACCIDENT Two suits asking $250,000for damages were . filed in Placer county as the result of an accident Friday, July 28, when a trailer load of lumber fell onto a passenger car at Glenbrook. Burdette Risley, driver of the car, asks $100,000 and his wife, Violet, asks $150,000. Named.as defendants are Wil‘liam E. ‘Bennett, Colfax, owner of the truck; Earl W. Lenwell, driver; the Cal-Ida umber company; and Warren E. Raddatz. Risley, pinned in the wreckage, received two fractured legs, cuts and bruises, and his wife suffered scalp lacerations, cuts and bruises. Jay Humbird, brother of Mrs. Risley, and a passenger in the car, suffered cuts and bruises in the crash. Cee The crash, a spectacular one on “Car Wreck Lane,’ a mile Iong stretch of road just west if Town Talk, resulted when a binding chain on the log dolly owned by Bennett snapped and tumbled lumber onto the Risley automobile. Ce STOCKTON MAN GETS DEER EARLY LEGALLY Lester J. Norris of Stockton killed his buck in Nevada county and was safely home with the meat before Saturday and he accomplishedthis legally. Norris is an expert archer and California’ each year opens the season a few days early for the exponents of the bow and arrow. The Stockton man _ shot his forked horn Sep. 7 at 5:15 p. m. and brought it to Truckee where it was validated by Deputy Constable Slim Ellert of the Truckee Sport Shop. Ellert said that in his more than 20 years of validating deer, this-is the first time he has ever validated one for an archer. SCOUT TROOP 24 MADE $80 IN PAPER DRIVE Eighty dollars was the earned amount of the recent paper drive conducted by Boy Scout Troop 24, according to Ernest Chaney, scoutmaster. Chaney said the local troop collected. more than eight tons of paper during the campaign. Chaney said the troop particularly appreciated the cooperation by Vernon Woods who furnished a truck to haul the paper to Sacramento. Chaney said the troop will plan another paper drive in the future, when sufficient paper has been accumulated to warrant a drive. SHERIFF’ POSSE HANGS — UP BOOTS, SADDLES The Nevada County Sheriff's Possee has been disbanded and the treasury of approximately $500 has been placed in trust with County Clerk Ralph Deeble. The announcement was made yesterday by E. L. “Bud” Kyle, president, and Arthur D. Pepper, secretary. : Captain of the organization is Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who will leave the sheriff post Jan. 8 in favor of Wayne Brown. Brown to date has given no indication of his plans for a mounted posse. THREE LIGHTNING FIRES Three lightning fires were extinguished Tuesgay by Tahoe national forest fire suppression crews. All were small. Fires were at Keystone mountain in Camptinville area, Mt. Pluto in: the Truckee area and, one at Yuba pass. The Weather Fred Bush, Observer Friday, Sept. 15. .. 75 43. Saturday, Sept. 16 . 75° © 46 Sunday, Sept. 17 6. 72 44 Monday, Sept. 18 .. 62 47 Tuesday, Sept. 19 . 61 39 Wednesday, Sept. 20 71 47 Thursday, Sept. 21°. 82 44 Rain: Sept. 17, .35; Sept. 18, .10. SPECIAL FIRST AID COURSES FOR FIREMEN A first aid expert from: the California bureau of mines,. San Francisco, will be here next week to, inaugurate two series of first aid classes for the Nevada City volunteer fire department. A five-day 15-hour course. of standard first aid will open the program. Chief John Graham announced 22 firemen and two bus drivers have signed up for the course. Following the first aid course, a 20-hour course for rescue crew men under oxygen will be held. Ten firemen have signed for the course, according’ to Graham. They are Paul Falconi, Cameron Larson, Albert Wood, Alton Davies, Leroy Christenson, Craig Davies, Richard James, Miles D. Coughlin, T. W. Sigourney and Chief Graham. The oxygen masks were obtained by. the department in 1937. BROKEN GEAR BRINGS FAILURE TO SCIENCE A broken gear in. solar observation instrument: brought failure to a scientific party sent to Fallen Leaf lake,-near Lake Tahoe, by the University of California at Los Angeles to measure the earth’s distortion during an eclipse of the sun last week. Dr. Louis B. Slichter, director ‘of the UCLA institute of geophysics, returned to Los Angeles frankly admitting “great disappointment.” A companion expedition. was sent to Attu, in the Aleutian Islands. 2 Purpose of the studies was to determine how much an eclipse will affect the earth’s surface. The eclipse, the second this year, was not visible in the U. S. but was seen as a partial eclipse in northern Asia, Hawaii and Alaska. MCCAULIFF, HODGE START NID QUERY Frank McCauliff, Plumas county district attorney, and Darrell Hodge, Sacramento auditor, met Tuesday evening in the court room of the court house with the Nevada Irrigation District investigating committee of the grand jury and mapped plans for the inquiry. McCauliff was assigned to conduct the investigation by Attorney General Fredeck N. Howser, after the grand jury requested aid from the state office. Hodge was hired by the grand jury to conduct an audit of the NID books. PARK WORK NEEDED Park Commissioner Marvin E. Haddy has sounded a yelp for help in completing the veterans’ memorial grove in Pioneer park. Haddy says 100 yards of topsoil, several loads of manure, and lots of volunteer labor is necessary to complete the project of turfing about 10,000 square feet. ASKS WAGES Robert Gropper filed suit in Nevada county superior court against John Phelps, Washington, asking $3,202.37 wages allegedly unpaid for a period from April 5, 1949 to Aug. 18, 1950. Gropper charges he was paid. $205 cash and board and room valued at $900 during the 16% months. FINED $25 Gale Blair, Lodi, paid a $25 fine Monday in Justice of the Peace George W. Gildersleeve’s court for leaving a camp fire unattended near the Lake Bowman road “Saturday. RESERVIST_CALLED Walter J. Hawkins, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hawkins, and a senior at University of Santa Clara, has reported to duty at Ford Ord, following his call as an army reservist. H. A. Stump filed in superior court this week a complaint to foreclose a $12,000 promissory note mortgaged by M. R. Bickman, operator of Partridge Motors, Grass Valley. COMMITTEE OKAYS UNION HIGH SCHOOL School District Organization on Wednesday evening voted unan. imously in favor of a union high school for western Nevada county, at a meeting held at Nevada City high school. The proposed union.’ district would include 18 school districts of the county with the exception on the part within the TahoeTruckee joint unified district at the eastern end of the county. The augmented committee included an all-member committee plus representatives of all county school districts. Eight of the 11committeé members were present and 15 of the 18 districts were represented. Motion for approval of the union high school plan was made by John Larue, member of the Nevada City unified school district board of trustees. Following a series of public hearings in school districts in the county, the issue will be brought to the voters sometime after July 1, 1951. William Wilson, principal of Grass Valley high school, pointed out that a union school would enlarge the curriculum currently available at Nevada City and Grass Valley high schools. He said such a school would offer machine shop courses, agricultural studies, printing, extended courses in the sciences and improved facilities for all students. John Oakie of the Clear Creek district and chairman of the countywide committee presided. ROUTINE BUSINESS ALTERS PATTERN OF NID BOARD MEETING Routine business filled a quiet session of the board of directors of the Nevada Irrigation District Friday. The meeting was in direct contrast to recent stormy sessions fhat culminated in the * firing of Manager Forrest Varney on Sept. 8.Charles Law, hydrographer of ° the district, and who was named acting agent for the board the previous session* was given a salary boost to $450 a month from a previous $300. R. M. Smith, general superintendent, was boosted to $450 a month. Both increases were voted unanimously. First matter of routine nature was a report that another. cow had drowned trying to cross a cattle bridge in the mountain division. A few complainants of assessments appeared before the board as protestants. Earlier complaints made the previous week were reviewed following investigation and in most cases were adjusted downwards. . The board authorized repairing of the D-S canal at an estimated cost of $18,000, of which $13,000 would“be for guniting. The directors also approved a lumber contract with T'iahoe Sugar Pine company with a $7 rate in Grass Valley and $9 at Bowman. Final subject of the session was the budget for next year. NATIVE OF NEVADA CITY SUMMONED TO REST William R. Martin, 70, native of Nevada City, died Wednesday . morning at the family home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in the Myers-Grass Valley mortuary followed by cremation. Friends are requested to omit flowers. Martin spent his entire life in, . Nevada City. Surviving are sisters, Mrs. Betty Martin West, and Mrs. R. R. Goyne; and cousins, Mrs. Benjamin Hall, Nevada City, and Miss Charlotte Martin of Pacific Grove. : TEACHING IN TRONA \ Edwin, son of John E. Nettell, Nevada county recorder, is teaching at Trona high school. He is a 1949 graduate of the University of California and completed the Grass Valley high school in 1945. He majored in mathematics: and minored in music. COUNTY GETS $467,738 . Nevada county was apportioned $467,738 in 1950-51 state funds’ for public schools. The apportionment is made on average daily attendance basis at $120 a pupil. .

4 CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM GETS ROLLING HERE Nevada county’s Crusade for Freedom campaign, under _ the general chairmanship of Superior Judge James Snell, is underway this week in Nevada City, Grass Valley and Truckee. William Durbrow, Town Talk; is the general vice chairman. The Crusade for Freedom was opened:in San Francisco Monday at 11 a.m. with pealing of church and school bells, and is spreading throughout the U. S. Under the general chairmanship of Lucius D. Clay, the Crusade for Freedom is a roll call of all Americans who love freedom to help lift the Iron Curtain everywhere on the face of the globe. Judge Snell said participation is voluntary and entails. but two activities — (1) signature of the Freedom Scrolls which are being circulated throughout Nevada county this week, and (2) backing up of your signature by a voluntary contribution to Radio Free Europe, the American people’s broadcasting station in the western part of Germany that daily beams into the Iron Curtain. The station went on the air July 4 with Czech and Rumanian programs and features, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian language programs. Judge Snell announced .the Crusade for Freedom committees as follows: Grass Valley: C. R. Clinch, Roy Tremoureux, Gail Gordon, Guy Robinson, Rev. Frank Buck and Gil Cramer, Nevada City: Fred F. Cassidy, Dr. Walter’ Hawkins,!.Frank G. Finnegan and Thomas Hi Taylor. Truckee: Walter Barrett, Walter Loynd, Eugene O’Rourke and Cecil Edmunds. Gathering of financial returns for the purposes of the commitee and Radio Free Europe: John J. Fortier, Horace A. Curnow and Ray Scott. Church Buck. Publicity: Robert T. Ingram, Ken Wray, Walter Barrett and Alvin Trivelpiece. ; Judge Snell said that a strong committee of women with representation from all women’s organizations in the county, will be formed to assist in obtaining the scroll signatures in downtown locations, schools, public gatherparticipation:Rev. Twenty-Third Year. No. 39 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, September 22, 1950: POLIO PATIENTS AND ORTHOPEDIC CASES AT CLINIC HERE TODAY Polio patients who have previously been under care, as well as children who have had surgery through the Crippled Children’s Service may be examined ‘today in an orthopedic and crippled children’s clinic being held at the Methodist church, Broad St., between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Miss Barbara Newman, physical therapist at the polio cgnter, Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley, is conducting the clinic, and will be assisted by Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, school nurse. Dr. Delivan Fuiks, Sacramento orthopedic surgeon, ‘is. in charge of the clinic: Miss Newman announced there will. also be consultation service for those with orthopedic problems who have not yet been under the care of the services. FIVE LICENSES IN ONE DAY IS LOCAL RECORD County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble and his staff issued five marriage licenses last Friday, for what is a Nevada county record for one day, as far as Deeble can recollect in the twenty years he has served in the office. Licenses. were issued to: BROWN-WARD — Almon E. Brown, 19, Grass Valley, and Doris Louise Ward, 16, Nevada City. DEWARD HAUGLAND Carlton J. Deward, 26, and Beverly Jane Haugland, 22, both of Grass Valley. McLAUGHLIN-MARRIOTT — John A. McLaughlin, 21, Nevada City, and g.eona Mae Marriott, 19, Grass Valley. BUCK-WOOD — Robert Hermian Buck, 44, and Isabel Viola Woods, 38, both of Grass Valley. KEY-HOOD — Alfred Taylor Key, 44, and Alma Rosalyn Hood, ings and other points. : Every signature of the Freedom Scroll will be permanently enshrined in the base of the Freedom Bell in Berlin at dedication ceremonies, which will take place on United Nations Day, Tuesday, Oct. 24. ‘ EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP TOMORROW NIGHT You can have an extra hour of sleep, or carousing, reveling or whatever, tomorrow night. Daylight saving time ends during the darkness hours—officially at 2 am., Sunday morning. Clocks can be turned back tomorrow night is you have a mind for that extra hour of shuteye. Or there’s an extra hour of bending your elbow at your favorite bistro, or an extra hour for whatever your favorite entertainment may be. Daylight time is effective from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September, as it was voted into the constitution at the special election last November. FARM CENTER TO ELECT OFFICERS HERE TONIGHT Nomination and election of officers for 1950-51 will highlight a meeting of the Nevada City Farm Center tonight at 8 o’clock at Seaman’s Lodge, at Pioneer Park. ' Square *dancing and pot-luck refreshments will follow the business session. PERMITS NEEDED Don Knowlton, state division of forestry ranger, said permits for burning are still required, despite the recent rains: Fire permits may be obtained at the stat@ forestry office at the southern’ edge of Nevada City. BIGGER CHICKEN ‘HOUSE Chester Petegson is building a 7,000-chicken cajpacity coop at his place: on lost bill. He is building it during spare time from his’ duties at his service station at Commercial and Broad streets. 43, both of San Jose. REV. JOHN MACDONALD © PREXIES LOCAL PASTORS Rev. John A. MacDonald,, pastor of the Nevada City Baptist church, was elected president of the Twin Cities Ministerial Association at a meeting held Monday at the Grass Valley Methodist church. Other officers elected were Rev. Frank H. Buck, Emmanuel Episcopal church, Grass Valley, vice president; and Rev. Wm\ A. Reading, Grass Valley Nazarene church, secretary. The group discussed plans for united activities of the Protestant churches for the coming year. The next meeting will be held Monday, Oct. 16, at the Bethel church, Grass Valley. TRINITY JUNIOR CHOIR COMMENCES PRACTICE Practice started yesterday afternoon for junior choir for boys and girls of Trinity Episcopal church, according to Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of the church. Rev. Christensen also announced Sunday will see the resumption of the Young People’s Group comprised of eighth graders and high school age boys and girls. Religious instruction will last rom 7 to 7:30 followed by a social hour under direction of the rector and other adults. , ENJOYS COUNTY John Davis, a celebrated New Jersey philatelist (stamp hobbyist) enjoyed viewing the You Bet area of Nevada county under the guidance of Howard Wasley, one of our obliging and accommodating post office clerks, while visiting’ here last weekend. . SEVEN TO BE CALLED Seven. men from Nevada and Sierra counties will. be called for induction into the armed service, in October, according to an’ announcement by Col. Kenneth H. Leitch, state director of selective service, ‘. DEMOCRATS CONTINUEREGISTRATION CLIMB The future continues to look gloomy for as few remaining Republicans after a study of the registration books closed Friday by County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble. “ Deeble reported 11,183 electors registered on the county rolls for.the approaching Nov. 7 general election, a gain of 426 over the spring primary elertion. Of that 426 gain ,the Demorratic party accounted for 306 added names for a registratio of 6,393. ; : The Grand Old Party has 4,400 registered, a gain of 124. Other parties are: Social Labor, 2 new registrants; Communist, 1; no change; Townsend, 4, no change; Progressive, 4, one loss; Independent-Progressive, 37, seven losses; Prohibition,’ 6, one gain; Socialist, 6, two loss. Non-partisan registrants at 334 was a gain of three. GLENBROOK RESIDENT ANSWERS LAST CALL Funeral services were held at Hooper-Weaver mortuary Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Etta D. Sutton, 60, Glenbrook resident, who died Sunday morning at the Miners hospital. Rev. W. W. Turner officiated at the final rites. Interment was in Elm Ridge cem-Letery. A native of. Table Grove, IIL., she came to California in 1913. Following the death’ of her husband, Earl, she made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Walter Huson. Aiso surviving are a daughter, Florence Burrell, who. formerly lived on the Ridge road and now resides in Kingman, Ariz., and a son,.Chief Bosun Mate Curtis E. Johnson, Smartsville, at present stationed at San Diego. Other survivors -include’ her mother, Mrs. Myra Farfield, Tulsa, Okla.; four grandchildren; six sisters and a brother. TWO PATROLMEN HURT IN HIGHWAY CRASH California Highway Patrolmen Lorris Richards’ and Carle Kitts were. slightly injured. Sunday evening when their patrol car and a car driven by Paul Supanich, Daly City, collided on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, a_ short distance west of White Cloud. Supanich was cited for driving too fast under the road conditions, after his car skidded on a slick ‘spot on the highway and. swerved broadside into the police car. Supanich was homeward bound from a deer hunting trip. The front of the patrol car was badly damaged. GOLD FLAT NATIVE DIES Jack Clemo, 64, Grass Valley, and a native of Gold Flat, died Wednesday afternoon at Miners hospital. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock in theMyers-Grass Valley mortuary. Among his survivors is a sister, Mrs. Bernice Carter of Nevada City. TWENTY REPORT Twenty young men from Nevada and Sierra counties reported for physical examinations for possible military service induction, according to local selective senvice headquarters. Five men who took physical examinations in August will report for induction. next Friday. = NO DRAFT NAMES RELEASED . : No names of draftees will be released for publication until after they have been inducted into service, according to Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, secretary of the local selective service board. Mrs. Stevens said the policy is set by state selective service headquarters. . : FINED FOR CARELESS FIRE Melvin. Mayer, Oakland, was fined $10 Saturday for careless use of fire by throwing a lighted cigarette from a car on highway 40 near Big Bend. Justice of the Peace George W._ Gildersleeve imposed the, fine. MR. AND MRS. RISLEY ASK $250,000 DAMAGES IN GLENBROOK ACCIDENT Two suits asking $250,000for damages were . filed in Placer county as the result of an accident Friday, July 28, when a

trailer load of lumber fell onto a passenger car at Glenbrook. Burdette Risley, driver of the car, asks $100,000 and his wife, Violet, asks $150,000. Named.as defendants are Wil‘liam E. ‘Bennett, Colfax, owner of the truck; Earl W. Lenwell, driver; the Cal-Ida umber company; and Warren E. Raddatz. Risley, pinned in the wreckage, received two fractured legs, cuts and bruises, and his wife suffered scalp lacerations, cuts and bruises. Jay Humbird, brother of Mrs. Risley, and a passenger in the car, suffered cuts and bruises in the crash. Cee The crash, a spectacular one on “Car Wreck Lane,’ a mile Iong stretch of road just west if Town Talk, resulted when a binding chain on the log dolly owned by Bennett snapped and tumbled lumber onto the Risley automobile. Ce STOCKTON MAN GETS DEER EARLY LEGALLY Lester J. Norris of Stockton killed his buck in Nevada county and was safely home with the meat before Saturday and he accomplishedthis legally. Norris is an expert archer and California’ each year opens the season a few days early for the exponents of the bow and arrow. The Stockton man _ shot his forked horn Sep. 7 at 5:15 p. m. and brought it to Truckee where it was validated by Deputy Constable Slim Ellert of the Truckee Sport Shop. Ellert said that in his more than 20 years of validating deer, this-is the first time he has ever validated one for an archer. SCOUT TROOP 24 MADE $80 IN PAPER DRIVE Eighty dollars was the earned amount of the recent paper drive conducted by Boy Scout Troop 24, according to Ernest Chaney, scoutmaster. Chaney said the local troop collected. more than eight tons of paper during the campaign. Chaney said the troop particularly appreciated the cooperation by Vernon Woods who furnished a truck to haul the paper to Sacramento. Chaney said the troop will plan another paper drive in the future, when sufficient paper has been accumulated to warrant a drive. SHERIFF’ POSSE HANGS — UP BOOTS, SADDLES The Nevada County Sheriff's Possee has been disbanded and the treasury of approximately $500 has been placed in trust with County Clerk Ralph Deeble. The announcement was made yesterday by E. L. “Bud” Kyle, president, and Arthur D. Pepper, secretary. : Captain of the organization is Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who will leave the sheriff post Jan. 8 in favor of Wayne Brown. Brown to date has given no indication of his plans for a mounted posse. THREE LIGHTNING FIRES Three lightning fires were extinguished Tuesgay by Tahoe national forest fire suppression crews. All were small. Fires were at Keystone mountain in Camptinville area, Mt. Pluto in: the Truckee area and, one at Yuba pass. The Weather Fred Bush, Observer Friday, Sept. 15. .... 75 43. Saturday, Sept. 16 . 75° © 46 Sunday, Sept. 17 6.. 72 44 Monday, Sept. 18 ... 62 47 Tuesday, Sept. 19 .. 61 39 Wednesday, Sept. 20 71 47 Thursday, Sept. 21°.. 82 44 Rain: Sept. 17, .35; Sept. 18, .10. SPECIAL FIRST AID COURSES FOR FIREMEN A first aid expert from: the California bureau of mines,. San Francisco, will be here next week to, inaugurate two series of first aid classes for the Nevada City volunteer fire department. A five-day 15-hour course. of standard first aid will open the program. Chief John Graham announced 22 firemen and two bus drivers have signed up for the course. Following the first aid course, a 20-hour course for rescue crew men under oxygen will be held. Ten firemen have signed for the course, according’ to Graham. They are Paul Falconi, Cameron Larson, Albert Wood, Alton Davies, Leroy Christenson, Craig Davies, Richard James, Miles D. Coughlin, T. W. Sigourney and Chief Graham. The oxygen masks were obtained by. the department in 1937. BROKEN GEAR BRINGS FAILURE TO SCIENCE A broken gear in. solar observation instrument: brought failure to a scientific party sent to Fallen Leaf lake,-near Lake Tahoe, by the University of California at Los Angeles to measure the earth’s distortion during an eclipse of the sun last week. Dr. Louis B. Slichter, director ‘of the UCLA institute of geophysics, returned to Los Angeles frankly admitting “great disappointment.” A companion expedition. was sent to Attu, in the Aleutian Islands. 2 Purpose of the studies was to determine how much an eclipse will affect the earth’s surface. The eclipse, the second this year, was not visible in the U. S. but was seen as a partial eclipse in northern Asia, Hawaii and Alaska. MCCAULIFF, HODGE START NID QUERY Frank McCauliff, Plumas county district attorney, and Darrell Hodge, Sacramento auditor, met Tuesday evening in the court room of the court house with the Nevada Irrigation District investigating committee of the grand jury and mapped plans for the inquiry. McCauliff was assigned to conduct the investigation by Attorney General Fredeck N. Howser, after the grand jury requested aid from the state office. Hodge was hired by the grand jury to conduct an audit of the NID books. PARK WORK NEEDED Park Commissioner Marvin E. Haddy has sounded a yelp for help in completing the veterans’ memorial grove in Pioneer park. Haddy says 100 yards of topsoil, several loads of manure, and lots of volunteer labor is necessary to complete the project of turfing about 10,000 square feet. ASKS WAGES Robert Gropper filed suit in Nevada county superior court against John Phelps, Washington, asking $3,202.37 wages allegedly unpaid for a period from April 5, 1949 to Aug. 18, 1950. Gropper charges he was paid. $205 cash and board and room valued at $900 during the 16% months. FINED $25 Gale Blair, Lodi, paid a $25 fine Monday in Justice of the Peace George W. Gildersleeve’s court for leaving a camp fire unattended near the Lake Bowman road “Saturday. RESERVIST_CALLED Walter J. Hawkins, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hawkins, and a senior at University of Santa Clara, has reported to duty at Ford Ord, following his call as an army reservist. H. A. Stump filed in superior court this week a complaint to foreclose a $12,000 promissory note mortgaged by M. R. Bickman, operator of Partridge Motors, Grass Valley. COMMITTEE OKAYS UNION HIGH SCHOOL School District Organization on Wednesday evening voted unan. imously in favor of a union high school for western Nevada county, at a meeting held at Nevada City high school. The proposed union.’ district would include 18 school districts of the county with the exception on the part within the TahoeTruckee joint unified district at the eastern end of the county. The augmented committee included an all-member committee plus representatives of all county school districts. Eight of the 11committeé members were present and 15 of the 18 districts were represented. Motion for approval of the union high school plan was made by John Larue, member of the Nevada City unified school district board of trustees. Following a series of public hearings in school districts in the county, the issue will be brought to the voters sometime after July 1, 1951. William Wilson, principal of Grass Valley high school, pointed out that a union school would enlarge the curriculum currently available at Nevada City and Grass Valley high schools. He said such a school would offer machine shop courses, agricultural studies, printing, extended courses in the sciences and improved facilities for all students. John Oakie of the Clear Creek district and chairman of the countywide committee presided. ROUTINE BUSINESS ALTERS PATTERN OF NID BOARD MEETING Routine business filled a quiet session of the board of directors of the Nevada Irrigation District Friday. The meeting was in direct contrast to recent stormy sessions fhat culminated in the * firing of Manager Forrest Varney on Sept. 8.Charles Law, hydrographer of ° the district, and who was named acting agent for the board the previous session* was given a salary boost to $450 a month from a previous $300. R. M. Smith, general superintendent, was boosted to $450 a month. Both increases were voted unanimously. First matter of routine nature was a report that another. cow had drowned trying to cross a cattle bridge in the mountain division. A few complainants of assessments appeared before the board as protestants. Earlier complaints made the previous week were reviewed following investigation and in most cases were adjusted downwards. . The board authorized repairing of the D-S canal at an estimated cost of $18,000, of which $13,000 would“be for guniting. The directors also approved a lumber contract with T'iahoe Sugar Pine company with a $7 rate in Grass Valley and $9 at Bowman. Final subject of the session was the budget for next year. NATIVE OF NEVADA CITY SUMMONED TO REST William R. Martin, 70, native of Nevada City, died Wednesday . morning at the family home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in the Myers-Grass Valley mortuary followed by cremation. Friends are requested to omit flowers. Martin spent his entire life in, . Nevada City. Surviving are sisters, Mrs. Betty Martin West, and Mrs. R. R. Goyne; and cousins, Mrs. Benjamin Hall, Nevada City, and Miss Charlotte Martin of Pacific Grove. : TEACHING IN TRONA \ Edwin, son of John E. Nettell, Nevada county recorder, is teaching at Trona high school. He is a 1949 graduate of the University of California and completed the Grass Valley high school in 1945. He majored in mathematics: and minored in music. COUNTY GETS $467,738 . Nevada county was apportioned $467,738 in 1950-51 state funds’ for public schools. The apportionment is made on average daily attendance basis at $120 a pupil. .